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Author : William Macbride Childs
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
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Download or read book The Town of Reading During the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century written by William Macbride Childs and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicola Phillips
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191511323
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book The Profligate Son written by Nicola Phillips and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Regency England a profligate son was regarded as every parent's worst nightmare: he symbolized the dangerous temptations of a new consumer society and the failure of parents to instil moral, sexual, and financial self-control in their sons. This book tells the dramatic and moving story of one of those 'profligate sons': William Jackson, a charming teenage boy, whose embattled relationship with his father and frustrated attempts to keep up with his wealthy friends, resulted in personal and family tragedy. From popular public school boy to the pursuit of prostitutes, from duelling to debtors' prison and finally, from fraudster to convicted felon awaiting transportation to Australia, William's father (a wealthy East India Company merchant) chronicled every step of his son's descent into depravity and crime. This remarkable source provides a unique and compelling insight into the relationship between a father and son at a time when the gap between different generations yawned particularly wide. Diving beneath the polished elegance of Britain in Byron's 'age of surfaces', the tragic tale of William Jackson reveals the murky underworld of debt, disease, crime, pornography, and prostitution that lay so close beneath the veneer of 'polite society'. In a last flowering of exuberant eighteenth-century hedonism before the dawning of Victorian respectability, young William became disastrously familiar with them all. The Profligate Son combines a gripping tale with cutting-edge historical research into early nineteenth-century family conflict, attitudes towards sexuality, credit, and debt, and the brutal criminal justice system in Britain and Australia at the time. It also offers challenging analogies to modern concerns by revealing what Georgians believed to be the best way to raise young men, what they considered to be the relative responsibilities of parents and children, and how they dealt with the problems of debt during the first age of mass consumer credit.
Author : Stuart Hylton
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445648326
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Reading 1800 to the Present Day written by Stuart Hylton and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2015-11-15 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thematic approach discussing why Reading has become the town it is today.
Author : Michael Hinton
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Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book A History of the Town of Reading written by Michael Hinton and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Chamberlain
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750980532
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Hell Upon Water written by Paul Chamberlain and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2016-09-14 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, over 200,000 prisoners of war of many nationalities were brought to Britain to be held in the infamous prison hulks, land prisons and parole depots. Many prisoners languished in captivity for over eleven years. This book tells the story of these men and women. Hell Upon Water examines how prisoners of war were acquired by the British, how they were fed, clothed and accommodated by the Transport Board of the Admiralty. The larger prisons such as Dartmoor, Portchester Castle and Norman Cross are described in detail, alongside the smaller lesser known depots of Forton, Stapleton, and Mill Bay. It compares the treatment of French prisoners with that of Britons in France, and also tells the stories of officers who fell in love with local girls and married, and those who fought to escape.
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Total Pages : 864 pages
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Author : Mandell Creighton
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Total Pages : 632 pages
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Author : Christopher Dyer
Publisher : Univ of Hertfordshire Press
ISBN 13 : 9781907396120
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (961 download)
Download or read book New Directions in Local History Since Hoskins written by Christopher Dyer and published by Univ of Hertfordshire Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Local history in Britain can trace its origins back to the sixteenth century and before, but it was given inspiration and a new sense of direction in the 1950s and 60s by the work of W.G. Hoskins. This book marks the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of his Local history in England which was designed to help people researching the history of their own villages and towns. It is the result of a collaboration between academic historians in the Centre for English Local History at the University of Leicester, which Hoskins founded, and the British Association for Local History, an organisation that brings together the thousands of people who are not professional academics but who practise local history. Taking the work of Hoskins as a starting point, the contributors show how local history is being researched and written today. Fifteen historians write about a variety of local history subjects which are significant in their own right but which also point to current trends in the subject. They show how local historians use their sources systematically, from the non-verbal evidence of buildings to various types of electronic resources. All periods between the middle ages and the early twenty-first century are explored, as are many different parts of the country from Skye to the Kent coast. There are examples of local historians working on ethnic minorities, gender and the working class. Those who study localities use a variety of approaches, including those of social, economic, religious, legal, intellectual and cultural history, all of which are employed here. They are aware of the roots of their subject and examine the history of local history itself. Together, the editors and authors raise the various dilemmas which stimulate debates among local historians about the nature of the subject, its present health and the directions it will take in the next half century.
Author : William Macbride Childs
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Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Town of Reading During the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century written by William Macbride Childs and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : JOHN ERVIN KIRKPATRICK
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Total Pages : 346 pages
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Download or read book Timothy Flint Pioneer, Missionary, Author, Editor 1780-1840 written by JOHN ERVIN KIRKPATRICK and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harold James Dyos
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415193238
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (932 download)
Download or read book The Victorian City written by Harold James Dyos and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume traces the modern critical and performance history of this play, one of Shakespeare's most-loved and most-performed comedies. The essay focus on such modern concerns as feminism, deconstruction, textual theory, and queer theory.
Author : Ernest W. Dormer
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Total Pages : 78 pages
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Download or read book John Kendrick of Reading and His Benefactions written by Ernest W. Dormer and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Kirkup Dent
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Total Pages : 652 pages
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Download or read book The Making of Birmingham written by Robert Kirkup Dent and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. H. Richens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521249164
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (491 download)
Download or read book Elm written by R. H. Richens and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983-10-20 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elm, one of the three principal landscape trees of England, differs from the others in its complex variability and its intricate relationship with human settlement. Originally published in 1983, the present book covers all its aspects: its history, its use and distribution by man from prehistoric times onwards, its vernacular names, the numerous organisms associated exclusively with it and its place in English literature and the visual arts. The book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the English landscape. It is of particular relevance to botanists, foresters, archaeologists, historical linguists, zoologists, students of English literature and the fine arts, and workers in the areas of conservation and town and country planning.
Author : Stephen Wade
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1909183717
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Victorian Somebody written by Stephen Wade and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2015-03-11 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1880s, George Grossmith was the dazzling comic star of Gilbert and Sullivan's immensely popular Savoy operas. London theatregoers waited excitedly for the next production, knowing that George would be cast in the lead role of the ‘patter man'. He was also many other things in his life, including Bow Street court reporter, piano entertainer for high society, and in the 1890s, with his brother Weedon, the author of the humorous classic work of fiction, The Diary of a Nobody, which has never been out of print and continues to inspire other writers. In this fascinating book, Stephen Wade tells the story of Grossmith’s life, from Penny Reading entertainer to self-styled ‘society clown.’ A Victorian Somebody places him firmly in context, recalls the many friends and colleagues who worked with George, and puts him once again centre stage, exactly where he should be.
Author : John Ervin Kirkpatrick
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Total Pages : 344 pages
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Download or read book Timothy Flint written by John Ervin Kirkpatrick and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Father Thaddeus
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Total Pages : 408 pages
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